Jeffrey Gedmin

Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin (b. 1958) is the President of [http://www.rferl.org Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty] , a position he assumed in March 2007. Before taking the helm at RFE/RL he served for six years as Director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is "to foster 'enlightened' leadership and open-minded dialogue." From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Gedmin was a resident scholar and Executive Director of the now defunct, neoconservative American Enterprise Institute’s New Atlantic Initiative, a right-wing coalition of international institutes, politicians, leading journalists and business executives. Leading supporters and participants included Vaclav Havel, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, and U.S. Senators Jesse Helms and Joseph Biden.

Dr. Gedmin has been a frequent contributor to leading U.S. and European newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post and the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as well as a regular columnist for Die Welt, often promoting and attempting to justify the politics of the Bush administration in the Middle East. He has authored and edited several books and served as co-executive producer for two major PBS documentaries. He received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University in German Area Studies.

Dr. Gedmin was born in Washington, DC and raised in Northern Virginia.

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* [http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1186.html "Jeffrey Gedmin Profile"]